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Reconstruction Web Quest DBQ
Essay Question: To what extent was the Reconstruction of the South successful? To what extent was it
a failure?
Task:
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Read/analyze each source below.
2. Answer each question about the source on the hand out provided.
3. After you have analyzed all of the sources, write an introduction and body paragraph, and
include information from the documents to support your answer.
Part I-Document Analysis
Source A
“...the slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. -W.E.B.
Dubois”
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What is Dubois talking about? If the 13th amendment banned slavery, how can the free slave go
back into slavery?
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Source B
http://c85c7a.medialib.glogster.com/media/4d/4da9e5c74ddc02e152d8f5508bdae44521c18c4677235e6d4
2d8466f37c67b61/share-cropping.jpg
2.
Based on source B and your knowledge of U.S. history, what was the real end result of
sharecropping?
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Source C
Amendment 13:
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or and place subject to their jurisdiction..... 1865
Amendment 14:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any erson
of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws....1868
Amendment 15:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by
any State on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.......1870
3.
What new rights and freedoms are provided for in these amendments?
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Source D
http://wpscms.pearsoncmg.com/wps/media/objects/1693/1733989/images/Resources/ah3_p123.jpg
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What seems to be the ultimate goal of the KKK? What is the main idea of the cartoon?
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Source E
Note: Tourgee was a white, Northern soldier who settled in North Carolina after the War. He served as a
judge during Reconstruction and wrote this letter to the North Carolina Republican Senator, Joseph Carter
Abbott.
“ It is my mournful duty to inform you that our friend John W. Stephens, State Senator from Caswell, is
dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux in the Grand Jury room of the Court House on Saturday…
He was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room… Another brave,
honest Republican citizen has met his fate at the hands of these fiends…I have very little doubt that I shall
be one of the next victims. My steps have been dogged for months, and only a good opportunity has been
wanting to secure to me the fate which Stephens has just met… I say to you plainly that any member of
Congress who, especially if from the South, does not support, advocate, and urge mmediate, active, and
thorough measures to put an end to these outrages…is a coward, a traitor, or a fool.”
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5.
What group(s) is the KKK threatening? According to Tourgee, what types of people are being
attacked by the KKK? Why would the KKK attack these people?
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Source F
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-laIXATe2Eo/U4bN3s9XK3I/AAAAAAAAAGg/pAUwu0OdMWM/s1600/photo_2+(1).PNG
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What group(s) is the KKK threatening? Why?
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Source G
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=5&bioid=68
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Who was Hiram Revels, and why is he important?
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II. Introdocution and Body Paragraph
Write an introduction and body paragraph, follow the intro. format and rubric.
Essay Question: To what extent was the Reconstruction of the South successful? To what extent was it
a failure?